Biografie
Siavash Namehshiri is a Kurdish composer who has been living as a political refugee in Switzerland since 2009. For several years he has been increasingly involved in improvisation and approaches to contemporary electronic music. He has cooperated and improvised with various musicians and sound researchers. His sound practice also includes radio productions, film live scoring and short film music, theatre sound design as well as experimental DJ mixes and collaborative experiments.
In his sound practice, he is interested in finding forms for his memories, speaking through music and sound of war, flight, exile and processes of decolonization, and thereby also dealing with his trauma. Due to his long and varied practice in non-commercial, self-organized contexts, he is always interested in the socio-political components of sound and collaborative sound practice.